Alex Cranz

On Tuesday as voters across America headed to the polls in a referendum on the Republican’s two years of controlling the Legislative and Executive Branch, a more sinister referendum was was underway in California. All those west coast elites were out to make Daylight Savings Time permanent in the state. Presumably so they can get in a few more golf games.

Proposition 7, on the state-wide California ballot, allows the State Legislature, with a two-thirds vote, to make Daylight Savings Time permanent. Which means once they lose that precious hour in the spring you would never, ever, get it back. Ever.

This is clearly stupid, and something I’ve personally felt keenly since at least 1994, when I wrote to my then Congressman Pete Geren and asked why he supported Daylight Savings Time. He told me in a letter that it was not because he wanted to play more golf.